Charley promised to take them the vineyard Saturday, it was close by. Later, as the girls got some sun, that included liberal amounts of lotion applie...d by their men. Charley and David walked to the falls."Are you ever gonna get off your ass and ask her?" Charley asked David in an exasperated voice.David looked at Charley with amused eyes."I kind of did, just before you guys came back this morning. It kind of slipped out, but I plan on making it official, real soon." About damn time. You know I. Suzy's pert little arse was still up in the air, and she was breathing hard into her knickers with her face down on the bed in front of her, eyes closed. In a fairly loud voice I told her she had another twenty strokes of the belt to come, and proceeded to lay on the strokes, progressively harder. At the end she was crying like a child and wriggling her bum delightfully. As I finished I glanced over my shoulder and motioned to Larry to leave. He did so, silently on tiptoe, and I noticed he had. “We need to do something about the cord.”“Uh ... yes,” agreed Jack, who had no idea what to “do.”“Maybe you should go fetch a midwife,” suggested the new mother.“Not such a good idea,” said Jack. “Remember Mortimer?”“Oh yes,” sighed Harmony. “I forgot.”“I can understand how that could happen,” said Jack, grinning.“I think they tie it off with some string and then cut it,” said the former garp, whose life had changed just as much as Jack’s had, if not more.“OK,” said Jack.Then he went to get. "They need me to investigate a few new weapons that aren't from around here. They are being used to fight wars again," said Dusty"What are they?" asked Charles with a look of interest."Nuu uh, not until everyone gets together. You're welcome to sit in if you want to and you're welcome with us as well," said Dusty with a smile."When is it?" asked Charles."We're meeting at lunch. While Rachel is pretty pregnant she wants to visit with everyone so we're going to their house to check in on her,".